Netflix and YouTube were two major media TV/video platforms to gain in Nielsen’s June “Media Distributor Gauge” versus the previous month, as a number of legacy TV-media companies slipped.
The industry leader in this index, Walt Disney, fell to a 10.8% share from 11.4% in May.
NBCUniversal dipped to an 8.5% (from 9.0% in May), while Paramount Global declined to 7.9% (from 8.8%) and Warner Bros. Discovery dropped to 7.4% (from 8.1%).
Fox Corp. inched up to a 6.6% to from a 6.4% in the previous month. Amazon also climbed -- one tenth of a percentage point, to 3.2% from 3.1%.
Nielsen’s Media Distributor index is the total TV/movie program viewing share by media distributors across broadcast, cable, and streaming categories-- wherever their content runs.
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In second place behind Walt Disney was YouTube with a 9.9% share -- 4.2% higher versus May (9.7%). Netflix grew the most -- up 11.8% to an 8.4% share, up from a 7.6% share in May.
Nielsen noted that three mid-sized cable TV network-centric groups made slight gains due to the lack of sports on broadcast networks for most of the month: A+E Networks was at a 1.4% share (1.2% in May), while Hallmark Media came in at 1.2% (1.1%) and AMC Networks was at 1.1% (1.0%).
Overall, eight of 14 companies ranked showed share gains in the month.